GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button

https://zakhary.dev/blog/gbc-web-button

by zakhary • 7 months ago

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mysterydip• 7 months ago

I love the comeback of web buttons. And pages like this that go into great detail of such a niche thing.

zakhary8• 7 months ago

Thanks for the kind words! :)

catskull• 7 months ago

Very nicely done! Great blog as well, I’ve subbed to your RSS.

zakhary8• 7 months ago

Thank you! I don't post as often as I'd like to, but I'm hoping to blog more this year

K2h• 7 months ago

Excellent writeup. Thank yiu for showing the details step by step.

zakhary8• 7 months ago

Thanks! I'm glad people appreciated seeing my process for this silly little project

roskelld• 7 months ago

I've missed Web buttons. I remember entire movements done using them back in the mid 90's. There were some boycotts where people would put the buttons on their site to show support.

I also remember the ones proudly showing that their web page was written in Notepad or even Edit instead of some bloat ridden Frontpage or other generator site.

This was a really fun read. Will sub to your rss!

kristopolous4• 7 months ago

https://9ol.es/buttons/index.html a while back I did some archival scraping for these (using things like last modified dates, looking for meta generator tags... I forget how I wrote it exactly, it's probably somewhere)

I did some research in icon packs but as far as I can find, a bunch of these are just independent creations.

Therefore, I believe this collection is the definitive source of all of them. I found no other modern effort at collecting them.

mickeyp2• 7 months ago

Those are just.. buttons. But they are not 'web buttons' like you'd see everywhere on the web in the 90s. They are the same shape and size as the link above, and they were indeed often animated GIFs.

jsheard• 7 months ago

I miss those 350x19 "userbar" images that people used to stack in their forum signatures. Can we get those on HN? I need everyone to know I use Dreamweaver.

http://tiptopglobe.com/free-forum-userbars

philo23• 7 months ago

My favourite thing about these is that nearly everyone just kind of agreed on using that same pixel font for the text on the right side.

giancarlostoro• 7 months ago

I miss forums being more prevalent. I guess Facebook and other social media killed the prevalence of forums.

zakhary8• 7 months ago

Thanks so much! Hopefully I'll post more on my blog this year

austinallegro• 7 months ago

Great work!

Also, Nintendo lawsuit incoming in 3...2...

zakhary8• 7 months ago

Thanks!

Also, Nintendo lawsuit incoming in 3...2...

Lol I sure hope not

m00dy• 7 months ago

I really like the colorful animation on the button. I was actually close to using the same technique for the DeepWalker intro, just open it on desktop in a browser that supports 3D.

[0] https://deepwalker.xyz

orphea• 7 months ago

I feel like you're self-promoting a little bit too much.

jwrallie• 7 months ago

As a side effect of owning a GBC since I was 12, I can hear this gif!

Over 20 years later, the atomic purple now looks a bit yellowish, and I had to replace the polarizer at some point due to UV damage, otherwise still working perfectly fine.

looperhacks• 7 months ago

Cool post!

The capture process sounds much more complicated than necessary. There are emulators that can capture the output as APNG/GIF/... If you really want to make sure that you have every frame, a good emulator also supports manual frame stepping without having to use the debugger.

pimlottc• 7 months ago

You could also use a screen recorder with a non-lossy codec and grab the frames from that

zakhary8• 7 months ago

Thank you!

Yeah I definitely could have improved the capture method. It happens to be that I'm already familiar enough with GBZ80 assembly, but given how tedious taking the actual screenshots was I would opt for a less complicated solution in the future.

0x00cl• 7 months ago

There is a big collection here: https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/

GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button

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